

- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 INSTALL#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 DRIVER#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 32 BIT#
- #VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 WINDOWS 7#
What’s puzzling is that we have other windows 2008 VMs that are file servers and don’t experience the issue. i stopped the service and changed the service startup from automatic to manual. i googled to determine what ccmexec.exe was and discovered it was the SMS Agent Host service that is enabled by default in windows. we ended up contacting microsoft support and after support analyzed a few memory dumps they concluded that a ccmexec.exe IO thread was stuck on the disk (involving the lsi_sas.sys driver). still the random lockups occurred.Īt this point vmware support was at a loss. we even rebuilt the server from scratch with windows 2008 R2 and just brought over the data volume.
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 INSTALL#
In the virtual machine menu, Click Install VMware Tools. per vmware support we tried installing a different video driver. To install VMware Tools on a Windows Server 2008 Core guest operating system: Log in to your Windows Server Core using an administrator account.

monitoring processes and resource consumption. uninstalling and reinstalling the latest vmware tools. Note that since the release of VMware Tools 10.1 (on 2015) only a subset of guest OSes is included in the built-in version, removing some legacy or. Regarding the new features, it says: Support for managing Salt Minion through guest variables. The release notes state that build 19345655 of VMware Tools 12 was released on.
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 WINDOWS 7#
linux.iso for Linux guest OSes glibc 2.5 or later. The VC++ Runtime is a prerequisite for VMware Tools 12.0 on Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and higher versions. winPreVista.iso for Windows guest OSes earlier than Windows Vista. uninstalling any non-vanilla install software. windows.iso for all Windows OS NT 6.0 (Vista or Windows Server 2008) or later.
#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 DRIVER#
See driver installation fails in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Install the latest version of VMware Tools and then perform a restart after you verify that the setting for the Telnet Server service log on setting is set correctly. We tried all kinds of things…throwing additional hardware resources at it. Any earlier versions of VMware Tools should be removed. during the time period when the VM became unresponsive end-users could not access the file share. at this point there was no graceful way to shutdown the VM only a hard reset would work. the only clue we had was that vmware tools would display as “not running”. there was no rhyme or reason as to why this was occurring. The server began becoming unresponsive randomly sometimes several times a day sometimes once every few months. we had a windows 2008 standard VM used as a file server (for user home directories to be exact).

Please be advised that using the (enhanced) VMXNet adapter will cause all sorts of installation problems, so I used the e1000 vNIC.This is a particular issue that we struggled with for over 2 years. And a restart is required.Ĭ:\Users\dave>start /w ocsetup ServerCore-WOW64Īfter running the above command to install WoW64 and rebooting, the VMware Tools install properly. Net Frameworks installed so I figure I might as well include support for that.

#VMWARE TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 2008 32 BIT#
WoW64 support for 32 bit applications is now an optional feature in Server Core and isn’t installed by default. The subsystem needed to support the image type is not presentĪfter some googling I found only a single hit on this problem: “ More PowerShell Remoting“. However, I ran into a problem while trying to launch the installer (setup.exe) from the command prompt Because it is a Virtual Machine, I need to install the VMware Tools. I’ve been installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 VM for filesharing in my VMware Lab Manager Environment.
